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California is Now the 4th-Largest Economy in the World, Surpassing Japan. Why?

University of California, Berkeley – Changemaker of the planet, creating and discovering the 3-dimensional transistor, nuclear energy, nMRI, neural plasticity, free speech, integrated circuits, the biotech industry, MEMS, autonomous driving, radioactive carbon dating, CRISPR, lithium ion chemistry, RISC computing, quantum dots, the LASER, etc. California is the cultural and technology innovation center of the world. …

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The Politics of Natural Disasters in the USA – Texas is #1 in More Ways Than One

Considering the three largest states in the USA, California, Texas, and Florida, it is California that has the least number of disasters with the lowest cost burden, by far, of the three. Texas, of course, is the number one disaster state. Yet, when the state of California faces a disaster, Republican politicians, especially those from …

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The Texas Doom-Loop Continues

Texas: Crime is soaring, mass shootings are a weekly occurrence, office buildings are empty, people are being laid-off in droves, heat and pollution are stiffling, airlines are cutting flights to Austin, those able to leave the state are moving out, and the weather sucks. Looking at cities as a whole, not just the downtown, Houston, …

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“Austin is where ambition goes to die. We’d love to be in California.”

Tech workers say they regret moving to the triple-digit city, given its middling tech scene, horid weather and traffic, and “fake” atmosphere. Austin is where ambition goes to die, if the bullets don’t kill it first. People are moving in droves to San Francisco and the city’s buildings are filling again. The much ballyhooed move …

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Corporate Money, Especially from Big Oil, is Controlling the Media and the Narrative: “Government is Corrupt, So Let Us Rule the US”

As I watch Texas oil money purchasing TV stations, and newspapers becoming corporatized, including in California, I see more and more people marching to the tune of oil (and other) plutocrats. I spend time in San Diego and Berkeley, CA and have been watching what’s happening in these two booming cities, as well as our …

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Venture Capital 2022 – California is the land of Innovation

California by far is the leading state for venture funding and for innovation, and San Francisco leads the way. The state’s beauty and diversity (people and habitat), and being the most fun state in the US, are only a part of the attraction. In the first half of 2022, California received $65 billion in VC …

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